Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
3.5 剧情一般，但还是非常喜欢不停奔跑着的画面、喜欢滑板少年、烟花、摄影、喜欢北海道函馆的静谧冷清，并且喜欢奈绪。最后一场东出光脚在草里跑起来的戏也很喜欢，希望从此我们都能找到属于自己适合的道路吧。
虽然借鉴痕迹很重，但故事完成度还是比较高的，可惜男主表演不太到位，整部戏都木口木面在念台词，氛围也没有慧星来的那一夜好。
淡淡的生活流，奔跑时的喘息和海风拂出的草之韵响、没有开始也没有结束（看到北狐又如何？均匀洒在面部的白昼日光让这个场景充满了虚幻感）以及被（极力）平平带过的死亡。有几处很不错的视点交错融合——开头车内浮空镜头里横向飞逝的街景到小泉出场后随滑板运动前进的跟拍直至人物中景作结；四人无意识的第一次交汇（或者错过），草坡的中景既在镜头的平面上划分为两部分，也同时在空间的远近法隔出两个区域；小泉和弘斗的跟跑切到前景中三人跑步的跟拍镜头再切到惠美骑电动车的跟拍（其他三人再次被划进草坡的后景）。
通过毁坏自己(与自己的生活), 东出昌大蜕变成了很不坏的演员
病情好转的男主最后还是吞服大量药片
感觉看到了很多电影的影子，主题也不是非常明确，最后的结局确实没有看懂到底是什么意思。
多加一星给导演，因为从他那儿学到了许多干货。
故事的基调抓住了，但剧情不是很有新意，导演的映前谈视频中讲他在原著外加入妻子这个角色，自己的妻子也是这个电影的编剧，这件事情本身让人无法估量对错。
今天过来亚贸了点映。我本来就喜欢看这种小成本悬疑片。演员就三个，场景也够简单的，就是度假村和森林。女演员的演技不错，几场哭戏让我印象深刻，被赶走的委屈无助，杀死自己的无奈，和儿子通话的欣喜。影片情节有一点烧脑，几个空间来回穿梭，先头有点不明白，看到后面就豁然开朗。整体来说这部影片还挺对我胃口。
被狠狠地戳中了。好美，好想去函馆跑步。东出演得好的好像都是本色出演的诶🤔
首先是时代背景，七十年代摇滚乐加上牛皮纸般的古铜色滤镜，让这部电影看起来分外怀旧、温馨；其次，人物造型分外养眼，那个年代的人总是留着一头蓬松的头发吗？看上去像萨摩耶一样好摸；最后，每个演员都十分讨喜，尤其是本阿弗莱克，这可能是他演艺生涯最不致郁的表演，看完后谁会不想要一个本阿弗莱克这样的舅舅？
低配《彗星来的那一夜》，大团圆结局是真的没内味……
希望）”的存在。
2021.11.10 挺不错的小成本科幻啊，虽然故事走向和彗星来的那一夜很像，但是也还是蛮精彩的。最后女主选择留在了孩子没有离开的世界，但开局明明女主躺在了急救车上，这怕不是一个幻想或者一个梦境吧...
这些年看多了苦大仇深，偶尔看看温馨小品也还蛮舒服。就是总有种像乔治克鲁尼精英阶层向下看的别扭滤镜，说不好
想起高考那会，不上晚自习，像发了疯一样在学校后面的那条省道上，从城市的这一端跑到城市的那一端。每次跑步遇到的事物、风景都在变化。
一级棒！
这种题材应该支持。我不想都是些爱情片儿童片主旋律片和喜剧片
滑板，奔跑，奔跑到力竭，喝酒，奔跑然后发疯，继续奔跑
不难看，东出昌大演得不错，喜欢跟少年一块跑步那段：我最近都没有练篮球；我最近也没有工作。跑步好像还蛮治愈的？
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